Dorian Cox

"The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on" - Ronnie Barker 🍻

Lola by The Kinks is one of the best songs of all time, BTW.

"Post-punk is a thorny old subject. Where does it begin? What does it mean? The original punk explosion was a democratisation of art, but it was brief; the fun was over and the boundaries dictated before you could say Splodgenessabounds." blog.roughtrade.com/rough-trade-es…

BURNAGE BREATHTAKERS IN THE AREA

obsessed with classic corrie leanne planning to burn down her restaurant and all the men just being like "yeah ok sure"

The great Vivian Stanshall, born on this day in 1943. Canyons Of Your Mind was absolute peak Bonzos. Frying pan, frying pan.

I once finished fourth at the Commonwealth Games. I was fucking proud of what I did but the reaction of friends has always been either pity or mocking for missing out on a medal. What's your greatest life achievement Dave? Middle management at B&Q?

Betty & François Catroux at their Paris apartment c.1970 Why François Catroux Is the French Design Master You Should Know architecturaldigest.com/story/why-fran…

‘I was on Coronation Street for three weeks, and one day I walked past a building site and they shouted, “Hiya Janice!”… that’s what it was like in those days, everyone watched the same programme.’ @Linda_Regan on stage in conversation with @PaulaWilcoxUK at the #talkingpictures Festival of Film.

Arab Strap think it ironic that Guinness picked their song. They were once barred from a Falkirk nightclub after one pint of Guinness too many. Rosie’s manager said “I’m pleased they are doing well, they are nice lads but they did get carried away here once and we had to bar them

Paul Weller has had some of the worst haircuts ever seen.

corrie is so good right now i'm gripped

@YCSP84 I watched Boys From The Blackstuff again last week. Hard hitting and depressing in equal measure and a stark reminder of Thatchers harrying of the North. Tom was remarkable in it. Dixie doing his best just to keep his head above water. Remarkable viewing.

Been trying to caption this without saying 'liminal'.

On this day, 61 years ago, Sidney J. Furie's "The Ipcress File" (1965) was released in the U.K. On the first day of shooting, director Sidney J. Furie gathered the cast and said, "This is what I think of the script." He then set it on fire. Michael Caine on the incident: "The driver picked me up for the first day of shooting and asked me if I was an actor in the movie, and if I had read Len Deighton’s book. When I told him I was the lead in it, he told me, ‘The whole thing is a load of rubbish, isn’t it?’ Then, when I arrived on set, Sidney had everyone gather around. He asked if anyone had any matches, and I smoked at that time, so I handed mine over. Sidney took the script, lit the match, looked at everyone and said, ‘Here’s what I think of this script’ and set the match to it. That was his copy of the script, so he asked if anyone had another copy to consult after he had burned his own, so I gave him mine. But it was a gesture, an illustration. It was a hell of a way to be christened into being the lead in a film." Sidney J. Furie on the reason for the movie's peculiar style: "I was very depressed always when we started shooting, thinking that it was going to be really lousy and I didn’t know what to do, so I told myself I would come up with a style of shooting that is different. I put shoulders across the screen, I shot up at things, I shot down, just to make it different, to give it ambiance. It was done out of insecurity, with a little cognac spiked in my morning coffee to give me courage." ("Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films", Daniel Kremer, 2015)

In 1980, Thames Report asked the Davies family to put the infamous PROTECT AND SURVIVE pamphlet to the test. Full of busywork designed to keep people occupied before a nuclear attack, in reality it was about as much use as an inflatable dartboard.

30? Jesus.

Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. Someone may have completely opposite political views to you, but if you both laughed at the same sitcom on TV last night, you had something in common. Streaming destroyed that, and now we all hate each other.

Girl on a Spacehopper, Byker, Newcastle, 1971, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

You know whenever anyone’s like, I ran the length of Africa, or I ran 63 ultramarathons in a row? None of it is anywhere near as impressive as this clip of Rod Hull being chucked into a freezer by Emu. It’s just perfect. Such great physical comedy.